Hutch: ‘Owners fully intend to lock us out’

Interesting comments today from former Seahawks Pro Bowl guard Steve Hutchinson, who told Judd Zulgad of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that NFL owners are positioning themselves for a lockout in 2011.

Steve Hutchinson

Hutchinson, the player’s union rep for the Minnesota Vikings, came out with some pretty strong statements on a topic that is bubbling below the surface around the NFL as teams prepare for this final season under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement.

“The owners fully intend to lock us out,” Hutchinson told Zulgad. “That’s why they negotiated a TV contract that would pay them with the lockout happening [in 2011]. They fully wanted this to happen because they made sure they were going to be compensated if in fact there was no season played.”